Example sentences of "[adv] 10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 2 | George Duffield , only 10 years younger than Lester , did his energetic best on the well-backed runner-up Case Law . |
| 3 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |
| 4 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 5 | Hunter succeeded Phillipa Burrow as chairman at the Torquay convention , less than two weeks after his 30th birthday and only 10 years after leaving college in his native Edinburgh with a Higher National Diploma in communications studies . |
| 6 | Although only 10 years into production , Magnus is regarded as having reached middle age and approaching the point where production should begin to decline . |
| 7 | Researchers predict that the forests will last only 10 years unless Soviet sulphur levels are cut . |
| 8 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 9 | Next time I saw Joe he looked maybe not 10 years younger but certainly a totally different man and ready to rock . |
| 10 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 11 | The sole surviving Metrovic D5705 , withdrawn after just 10 years service on BR , was stabled between former ECML Deltics D9016 and D9000 . |
| 12 | Rogers was just 10 years old when her behaviour first caused concern . |
| 13 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 14 | You have to look to the future … not just 10 years away , but 2,3,5 etc . |
| 15 | Serious structural problems mean the building which is just 10 years old needs around £4.5m worth of repairs . |
| 16 | This flat is situated on a small select development built approximately 10 years ago , with views to a small river running alongside and close to Oxford City . |
| 17 | I now know — having read this account of clerical passion — that Bishop Casey 's own son , Peter , was already 10 years old . |
| 18 | Taken over 10 years , it was equivalent to an annual rise of 7.5 per cent — nearly four per cent higher than the current inflation rate . |
| 19 | At the 1975 Paris show , exactly 10 years after the Dino Berlinetta Speciale was unveiled , the 308GTB , the most successful Ferrari ever , made its debut . |
| 20 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 21 | In his second visit to Portugal on May 10-14 [ for his first visit , in May 1982 , see p. 31604 ] , John Paul II prayed before a shrine of Our Lady of Fatima , near Lisbon , in thanks for his survival of an assassination attempt exactly 10 years earlier . |
| 22 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 23 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 24 | For example , a boy under 10 years , the age of criminal responsibility , took his friend 's bicycle home and gave it to his father . |
| 25 | Two out of five are under 10 years old . |
| 26 | ‘ My advisers have made it clear that there would be no point in getting involved in stocks and shares unless it was for a minimum of five years and better still 10 years . ’ |
| 27 | It criticized the fact that the compliance date is still 10 years behind the original EC deadline initially agreed by the government . |
| 28 | The land was set aside 10 years ago , but since then the plan has grown and South Oxfordshire District Council recently turned it down . |
| 29 | It has been quite common in London for nearly 10 years . |
| 30 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |